Act of Dec. 22, § 2, 1814 Miss. Laws 16, 16 (P. Isler & J. M’Curdy).
“AN ACT
To authorize the governor of the Mississippi territory, to accept of the services of citizens exempted from militia duty...
...Sec. 2. And be it further enacted: That immediately on the governor’s acceptance of any number of volunteers, by virtue of this act, each private shall proceed to provide himself with a good rifle, musket or shot gun with four flints, twenty rounds of powder, ball, or buckshot, best suited to his gun, together with the most convenient accoutrements. The commissioned officers, shall be armed with swords; and the arms and accoutrements of all such volunteers shall be exempted from executions in payment of debts and their persons, when on service, free from arrest in civil cases.”
Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Eighth General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory, Begun and Held at the Town of Washington, on the Seventh Day of November, One Thousand Eigth Hundred and Fourteen (Natchez, MS: P. Isler & J. M’Curdy, 1814), 16. An Act to Authorize the Governor of the Mississippi Territory, to Accept of the Services of Citizens Exempted from Militia Duty, § 2. Approved December 22, 1814.
Original source document from LLMC: https://discover.llmc.com/LLMC-99910-1814-110.1.18